I'm currently using ext3, but as soon as Reiser4 gains xattr support I'll be switching my system to using that for my own reasons. For now I'd recommend ext3, it's stable and performs decently given tweaking like dir_index.

I've tried XFS, but I use it only on my video storage partition exclusively now. The reason is that it's extremly fast at deleting large files._________________Someone asked me once if I suffered from mental illness. I told him I enjoyed every second of it.
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/boot = ext2
/ = reiserfs
/home = reiserfs
~/movies = xfs
~/music = xfs_________________...it must have been very demanding having to learn how to use Microsoft Office, right up there with other lofty challenges like learning how to zip your fly without getting your dick caught.

Well, actually I only use that on my MythTV box. Everything else is ext3 or ReiserFS._________________"I cannot support a movement that exploded spending and borrowing and blames its successor for the debt."
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I have done a lot of Filesystem testing, and have come to the conclusion that he best overall filesystem is JFS. XFS is great for big files, Reiserfs is great for small files, while JFS is good for both types. In terms of data loss, I have not heard any cases of it, where as with Reiserfs and XFS, I have heard some cases.

I have not heard of any data problems with ext3, but I have found it to perform much worse than JFS, reiserfs, or xfs.

I have some others that aren't currently mounted. I chose XFS for the storage hard drive, but if I had it to do over again, I would choose ext3. I can tell no difference between pimped out ext3 and reiserfs. I haven't tried JFS or Reiser4.

Both systems have UFS, and run dragonfly._________________There is, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. If that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded. - Gautama Siddharta

I used ReiserFS for a long time, but it slowed really down due to fragmentation, so let's see if ext3 is better... _________________Unix philosophy: "Do one thing and do it well."systemd: "Do everything and do it wrong."